More and more Christians are joining in contemplative or mystical prayer, thinking it will make them stronger spiritually when the opposite is the case. Our research shows that those who engage in contemplative prayer in time see less and less relevance to the Cross (the atonement) to where it becomes unnecessary. The reason for this is quite simple: contemplative prayer makes a person feel one with and a part of God to where a sacrifice for sin no longer makes any sense.

As one New Age mystic said, “The era of the Single Savior is over.”

Shamanism, contemplative prayer, and New Age meditation are one and the same thing. As one adherent of mysticism explains, “The meditation of advanced occultists is identical with the prayer of advanced mystics.” Alice Bailey, whom I consider the “mother” of the New Age movement, predicted that New Age (or occultic) spirituality would not enter the world by going around the Christian church, but rather through it. She called it “the regeneration of the churches.”

In explaining this, Ray Yungen says: [I]nstead of opposing Christianity, the occult would capture and blend itself with Christianity and then use it as its primary vehicle for spreading and instilling New Age consciousness! In other words, occultic prayer all over the world is coming to a head and bringing about the great falling away that the Bible predicts will happen.

Modern-day proponents refer to it as quantum spirituality; and through borrowing terms used in physics, they tell us that if enough people meditate at the same time, we will achieve a critical mass, and we will then witness the dawning of the age of Aquarius where peace will guide our planet.

However, Alice Bailey and New Age leaders who adhere to the same beliefs see Christians who do not practice New Age-style meditation as in the way because they are not being “vibrationally sympathetic.” Such people, they maintain, will have to be eliminated!